Encompass routes a path to profits

FORT COLLINS – It all started when a father asked his son a favor.

Could he create a better software program to help dad more efficiently manage his beer distributorship?

That request from Kent O’Neil to his son, Jonathan, resulted in Encompass Technologies Inc., a Fort Collins company that specializes in developing software to help beverage distributors better track their products as they move from the warehouse into the marketplace.

Jonathan, then still a Colorado State University electrical engineering student, wrote the software program for his dad as his senior-year project.

“I wanted a program that…